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Health & Fitness

Stock Up for Winter at the Farmers' Market

Our market is winding down for the season, but you can visit us at our other markets all year round.

This Week at Our Centreville Market
Friday 3:30–6:30pm
5875 Trinity Pkwy.
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Dear Shoppers,

Yes, the end is near, and we are all a little sad to be leaving you at the end of October. We do encourage you to come visit us at Fairfax Corner and/or Gainesville, our two year-round markets which are about equidistant from the Centreville location. Fairfax Corner is a mid-week, midday market that will move to its winter hours of noon-3 p.m. the first Tuesday of November. Gainesville is our largest market, and we will reduce the hours to 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. the first Sunday of November. We also are open all year at Oakton on Saturdays when you are really missing Doug and his Angelic Beef.

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For those of you who have become dependent upon Trickling Springs milk, you can continue to enjoy it all winter. At Fairfax Corner, Heritage Farm and Kitchen, our Mennonite co-op, brings milk and the entire range of dairy products from their own cows, bottled by Trickling Springs. At Gainesville we have Moo Thru dairy, whose milk is produced by Virginia Holstein cows just down Route 29 from the market. Moo Thru also brings ice cream made on their family farm. Trickling Springs bottles Moo Thru’s milk products and returns their milk to Virginia for sale within 48 hours. Can’t get much fresher than that.

At either of these markets, you will see familiar faces, and on nice days, you will be able to watch our demo diva, Annie Sidley, in action at Fairfax Corner. She comes to market, shops from what is available, and teaches you how to prepare at least three dishes that you can prepare yourself for a locally sourced dinner at home all year round.

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This week at Centreville, feel free to stock up on beef, pork, chicken or veal. Think about ordering a 1/4 steer from Doug or Jacob or a personalized box of meat products for the freezer. You can also stock up on Cavanna’s pasta — we will have a full selection of pastas and sauces that will retain their flavor and consistency for several months in your home freezer. And please enjoy over these next few weeks the last great vegetables of summer as well as the fall vegetables that you will be able to buy at our year-round markets for most of the winter. Which reminds me that you should stock up on recipes, too, to get you through those cold days and evenings to come. Nothing like some good home-cooking to warm those cockles — whatever the heck they are!

And last but not least, here is a message from Celeste about the Fabbioli wines she will have this week and again at our last market of the year in two weeks.

Come and see the new offerings at Fabbioli Cellars, just in time for the holidays: Royalty, a port-style dessert wine with a taste of smoked cherries, cloves, holiday spices, cinnamon and cranberries; Tennat, a full earthy, rich and rustic wine, which wowed many people in its debut year (the Tennat will only be available for tasting in October); and the ever popular Rosa Nera, the port-style, black raspberry dessert wine, wonderful with just about any dessert and with warmth for the winter, a perennial favorite. And we will also have your favorites available as always, so stock up for the entertaining and gift giving season.

See you at the market!

Jean

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